Chelsea close in on Pato signing
- Posted on
- Comment
CHELSEA were finalising a deal for 26-year-old Brazil forward Alexandre Pato last Sunday night.
The Premier League champions hope to increase their firepower — particularly for their European campaign — by taking the striker on loan from Corinthians, with a possible permanent switch to follow.
Pato scored 63 goals in 150 games during six years at AC Milan, where he lifted the Serie A title in 2011, before returning to Brazil three years ago.
After scoring 26 goals on loan at Sao Paulo last year, Pato is ready to test himself in England, and strongly hinted at a move to the Premier League in an interview with The Mail.
“One day I knew I would like to come to England because I think the championship is No 1 in the world,” he said. “It is very competitive. I like the emotion in the English league.”
Pato’s arrival will provide competition for Diego Costa, who scored his eighth Premier League goal of the season in last Sunday’s victory over Arsenal.
ABOUT: Nana Kwesi Coomson
[email protected] An Entrepreneur, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Communications Executive and Philanthropist. Editor-in-Chief of www.233times.com. A Senior Journalist with Ghanaian Chronicle Newspaper. An alumnus of Adisadel College where he read General Arts. His first degree is in Bachelor of Arts - Political Science (major) and History (minor) from the University of Ghana. He holds MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Energy with Public Relations (PR) from the Robert Gordon University in the United Kingdom. He is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow who studied at Clark Atlanta University in USA on the Business and Entrepreneurship track.
View all posts by: Nana Kwesi Coomson
(Selorm) | 
(Nana Kwesi)